citrique
\si.tʁik\
The verdict
“citrique” is uncommon French (frequency #57,163 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,163
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un acide qu’on trouve dans le citron et dans certains autres fruits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-citrique · citrique · French
citrique · rank #57,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,163
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chromatiques
Nearest frequency peer: chromatiques (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « citrique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chaptal
Chaptal
42,842 corpus weight
- chauffante
chauffante
42,841 corpus weight
- chromatiques
chromatiques
42,839 corpus weight
- citrique
citrique
42,838 corpus weight
- cloner
cloner
42,836 corpus weight
- cloue
cloue
42,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « citrique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « citrique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
citrique is uncommon French at frequency #57,163 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si.tʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for citrique in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is citrique, spelled C-I-T-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un acide qu’on trouve dans le citron et dans certains autres fruits.
- 2Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how citrique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses saveurs de pamplemousse, de citron, d’orange et de noix rendent sa bouche éclatante et piquante, mais sa richesse de texture et ses notes de craie tempèrent son côté citrique.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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